What is he best known for?
The fields of study he is best known for:
- Gene
- Genetics
- Internal medicine
His main research concerns Genetics, Genome-wide association study, Single-nucleotide polymorphism, Allele and Schizophrenia.
His Genetics study incorporates themes from Psychosis and Disease.
The concepts of his Genome-wide association study study are interwoven with issues in SNP, Bipolar disorder, Meta-analysis, Genetic association and Genetic architecture.
His Single-nucleotide polymorphism research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Adipose tissue and Genetic analysis.
Hreinn Stefansson combines subjects such as Disease cluster, Population variation, Immunology and Genome with his study of Allele.
His research in Schizophrenia intersects with topics in Autism and Bioinformatics.
His most cited work include:
- Biological insights from 108 schizophrenia-associated genetic loci (4834 citations)
- Variant of transcription factor 7-like 2 (TCF7L2) gene confers risk of type 2 diabetes. (1823 citations)
- Large recurrent microdeletions associated with schizophrenia (1516 citations)
What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?
Hreinn Stefansson spends much of his time researching Genetics, Genome-wide association study, Genetic association, Single-nucleotide polymorphism and Schizophrenia.
His Genetics research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Psychosis and Disease.
The various areas that Hreinn Stefansson examines in his Genome-wide association study study include Odds ratio, Internal medicine, Case-control study, Bipolar disorder and Genetic architecture.
His research on Genetic association frequently connects to adjacent areas such as Meta-analysis.
His primary area of study in Single-nucleotide polymorphism is in the field of SNP.
Within one scientific family, he focuses on topics pertaining to Copy-number variation under Schizophrenia, and may sometimes address concerns connected to Cognition.
He most often published in these fields:
- Genetics (57.38%)
- Genome-wide association study (40.93%)
- Genetic association (16.88%)
What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2018-2021)?
- Genome-wide association study (40.93%)
- Genetics (57.38%)
- Schizophrenia (15.19%)
In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:
The scientist’s investigation covers issues in Genome-wide association study, Genetics, Schizophrenia, Copy-number variation and Genetic association.
His studies in Genome-wide association study integrate themes in fields like Genetic correlation, Bipolar disorder, Disease, Autism spectrum disorder and Genetic architecture.
In most of his Genetics studies, his work intersects topics such as Schizophrenia.
His Schizophrenia research includes themes of HLA-DQB1 and Gene duplication.
His research integrates issues of White matter, Diffusion MRI, Fractional anisotropy, Cognition and Autism in his study of Copy-number variation.
His biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Oncology, Bioinformatics, Meta-analysis, Genetic etiology and Smoking initiation.
Between 2018 and 2021, his most popular works were:
- Discovery of the first genome-wide significant risk loci for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. (644 citations)
- Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies new loci and functional pathways influencing Alzheimer's disease risk. (588 citations)
- Genome-wide association study identifies 30 loci associated with bipolar disorder (518 citations)
In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:
- Gene
- Genetics
- Internal medicine
Hreinn Stefansson focuses on Genome-wide association study, Genetics, Schizophrenia, Copy-number variation and Genetic architecture.
His study in Genome-wide association study is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Bipolar disorder, Brain morphometry, Meta-analysis, Genetic association and Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
His Genetic association research incorporates themes from Immunology, Major histocompatibility complex, Genetic predisposition and Haplotype.
His studies in Quantitative trait locus and Gene are all subfields of Genetics research.
His Schizophrenia research includes elements of Gene duplication, FMR1 and Autism spectrum disorder.
His work deals with themes such as White matter, Diffusion MRI, Fractional anisotropy, Fragile X syndrome and Autism, which intersect with Copy-number variation.
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